Horant and Wâ-te also in sending gifts to court were now the leaders.

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Sixty silken garments, the best that e’er were sold,

Up to the shore were carried, and forty wrought with gold.

They would have prized but lightly cloths from Bagdad even;

Of linen suits a hundred, the best they had, now to the king were given.

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Beside the handsome clothing, made of silken stuff,

Of richest inner garments they also gave enough;

There might perhaps be forty, or more, if reckoned fully;